Sociobiology

         When I read the Sociobiology’s information, I felt there were lots of controversial issues. I’m kind of disagreeing with the sociobiological theories. For example, according to the articles, it shows there is a hypothesis called ‘Trivers-Willard hypothesis’ which is concerning animals: “that females with low status and less access to resources tend to have more female offspring, and females with high status and more access to resources tend to have more male offspring (Trivers and Willard, 1973).” I don’t think this is the reason why people bear boys or girls. If we base on this hypothesis, there will be no boys on the low class society.

In addition, I also not agree with babies bring the inner predisposition when they were just born. In my opinion, people are educated how to do, talk, and live, etc. The most specific example is in the Disney’s cartoon “Tarzen”. Of course, he was born in human. However, the chimpanzee grew up him. All the actions Tanzen did were similar to chimpanzee. Back to the point, if Tanzen inherited his parents’ “social genes”, he would grow up with all human behaviors instead of animals’. Anyhow, I’m still interested in what Sociobiology learns.